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Cannon Lake was initially expected to be released in 2016, but the release was pushed back to 2018.[6] Intel demonstrated a laptop with an unknown Cannon Lake CPU at CES 2017[7][8] and announced that Cannon Lake based products will be available in 2018 at the earliest.

At CES 2018 (January 9–12, 2018) Intel announced that it had started shipping mobile Cannon Lake CPUs at the end of 2017 and would ramp up production in 2018.[9][10][11]

On April 26, 2018 in its report on first-quarter 2018 financial results Intel stated it was currently shipping low-volume 10 nm product and expects 10 nm volume production to shift to 2019.[12] In July 2018, Intel announced that volume production of Cannon Lake would be delayed yet again, to late Q2 2019. [13]

The first laptop featuring a Cannon Lake CPU, namely Intel Core i3-8121U, a dual core CPU with HyperThreading and Turbo Boost but without an integrated GPU, was released in May, 2018 in very limited quantities.[14][15]

According to non-official sources the 10nm process technology for Cannon Lake had too low yields to be profitable, and thus a future 10nm process will have an increased structure size in order to increase yields.[16]

A more recent rumour states that Intel "pulled the plug on their struggling 10nm process".[17] However, Intel has denied these claims.[18]